Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The hearing on stay Of proceedings in
Jake Sharpe's case was again postponed
| ON the I'D, being set for the 26th.
JUDGE THURMAN says the nomination of
POWELL for Governor by the Ohio Democ-
racy pleases him; also that he believes
Cleveland will be reelected President.
THE opinion exists in Europe that the
settlement of the Russo Afghan boundary
will go far toward ending the rebellion of
certain tribes against the authority of the
| Ameer.
AN important opinion has just been rem
! dered by Attorney General Garland on the
| subject OF alien land-ownership in the
territories and the District of Columbia.
LA FRANCE asserts the correctness of
| It's statement that General Boulanger de-
clined to head a monarchial movement.
The paper calls on Minister of War Fer
ron to demand of Boulanger the names of
the delegation that waited on him.
The corporation of Dublin, on the 22d,
conferred the freedom of the city on Mr..
VIM. O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, and
Mr.. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, who is
now visiting Ireland.
TEXAS fever is reported to be killing
many cattle in portions of Kansas.
JOHN TYLER, son of the late President
MR.. G. A. HEATH, of Montrose, Col,
went to neighbor's, on the 22d, leaving
her three small boys alone in the house.
Shortly afterwards one of the boys went to
his mother, told her that they had built a
fire, and for her to come home and get sup
per for papa. The mother, mistrusting
something wrong, hurried home and found
the building in flames and her two sons
burned to a crisp.
1T is estimated that the coke strike lust
closed cost the men and operators ST.
100000.
A CONFERENCE took place on the 23d be-
tween the managers of the Reading (Pa.)
Iron Works and committee representing
its ], 800 employees, who have been stand
ing out against a ten per cent. reduction
for some weeks. The conference resulted
in victory for the men for the present
ROMAN CATHOLIC circles in Lawrence,
Mass, are much agitated over the deposi-
tion Of Rev. P. Gilmore, formerly of Law
renee, but now of Waterford, N. Y. He
has been deposed by Rome from the posi-
tion of provincial of the Order of st. Au-
gustine in the United States. The affair
is the result of the st. Augustine Bank
trouble at Lawrence in 1883.
THEODORE THOMAS has sued the National
Opera Company for $1S,340 unpaid salary,
and proposes to go it alone with his or
chestra next season.
AMONG the passengers on the steamship
Etruria, which sailed from New York for
Liverpool on the 23d, were Robert Gar
rett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, Chauncey M. Depew and ex-
Governor Alger of Michigan. The latter
expects to visit Mr.. Andrew Carnegie in
Scotland.
! The sculling race between Jake Gau-
, daur and Ned Hanlan at Pullman, ILL.,, on
the 23d, resulted in a fizzle. Hanlon was
nominally the winner, but Gaudaur's
hacker, Mr.. st. John, claims that he had
instructed his protege to lose, as the condi-
tions were not complied with.
A PROJECT is on foot for an international
cremation congress to be held in Berlin in
1889, in connection with which will be an
exhibition of designs for crematories, urns
and coffins.
Mr.. JOHN WALL, the New York reporter
who accompanied Editor O'Brien in his re-
cent trip through Canada, was presented
on the 23d with purse of $1,000 by his
Irish American friends in the metropolis in
recognition of his sufferings in behalf OF
the Irish cause.
SAMUEL SCHAFFEL, AHdy VI VI OA~i ing
ton, O., was arrested at Milwaukee, Wis,
on the 23d, on a charge of perjury while
acting as witness in saloon prosecutions
in his town.
AN explosion of ammonia occurred on
the night of the 23d in the refrigerating
department. of Bergner & Engel's brewery,
at Philadelphia, resulting in serious injury
to five men, slight injury to three others
and damage of about $1,000 to the build
ing.
GENERAL WIN. MCKEE DUNN, q. s. A,
retired, died, on the 24th, at his home in
Fairfield County, Va.
A MOB broke into the Nebraska City
(Neb.) Jail on the 24th, took out Lee Shell
enberger. condemned murderer, and
lynched him.
A NEW line of steamships is to be run
from San Francisco to Panama in oppOsi-
ton to the Pacific Mail.
GERTRUDE BEECRoFT, aged seventeen, of
New York, was rebuked by her mother for
staying out late. She took rat poison on
the night of the oath, and died after much
suffering.
EIGHTEEN lives are now reported lost by
the food at Great Darlington, Mass. Par
ticulars, however, are not yet obtainable.
It is reported that two dams gave way in
Williamsburg.
Two young children of Prof. F. r. Honey,
of Yale College, died at New Haven, Conn.,,
on the 24th, under circumstances which
make it probable that they were poisoned
by ice cream.
CAPTAIN JOB JOHNSON and his ten-year-
old son were drowned at Pocomoke City,
Nd, on the 23d. Captain Johnson, with
the boy in his arms, attempted to jump
from the draw bridge to his schooner in
the Pocomoke river. He miscalculated the
distance, and they were plunged into the
river.
MISS ROSE CLEVELAND will take the vice.
principalship Of private school on Fifth
avenue, New York, at its fall opening In
September.
a NEW volcano has broken out on an
island in the Mediterranean sea.
A MINING company's safe at Bessemer,
Mich, was robbed Of 81, 900 on the night OF
the 23d.
AN explosion occurred in mine at Man.
ticoke, Pa, on the 25th, and three men
| were fatally injured.
AN eloping couple from Springfield,
Mass, were captured at Cleveland, o., on
the 25th.